Neither are the souls of the pious dead separated from the Church which even now is the kingdom of Christ. Otherwise there would be no remembrance of them at the altar of God in the communication of the Body of Christ.-- Saint Augustine of Hippo from “The City of God”

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Tuesday, December 09, 2014

Vatican
City, 7 December 2014 (VIS) – Yesterday afternoon, 6 December, Pope
Francis received in private audience Cardinal Angelo Amato, S.D.B.,
prefect of the Congregation for the Causes of Saints. During the
audience, the Holy Father authorised the promulgation of the
following decrees regarding:

MIRACLES,
attributable to the intercession of:

-
Blessed Jeanne-Emilie de Villeneuve, France, foundress of the Sisters
of the Immaculate Conception of Castres (1811-1854);

-
Blessed Marie-Alphonsine (nee Maryam Sultanah Danil Ghattas),
Turco-British Palestine, co-foundress of the Congregation of the
Sisters of the Holy Rosary of Jerusalem of the Latins (1843-1927);